Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Salvation Army Chic

As I searched my house yesterday for something to feature on The CSI Project's Thrifty Makeover day, it occurred to me that the question was really, "what shouldn't I feature?"

Thanks to the empowerment I experienced after reading about other bloggers' victories with cans of spray paint and glue gun sticks, I started finding my own treasures to remake and blog about. Many of my favorite things are thrift store makeovers!

My $8 Salvation Army Desk Makeover is, to date, my biggest thrifty makeover. You can click that link to read about how I did it, but I'll share some before and after photos here today as well as some updates I've made to the space.

Before ($8, glass top table from the clearance aisle at Salvation Army):

After (Salvation Army Chic):

I frosted the entire glass top except for a small fleur de lis cut-out, and made a pleated muslin skirt that attaches with heavy duty decorator's velcro:

The back hallway stayed bare for awhile until I hunted down the items I wanted to accessorize with:

The chair (a $4 thrift store find) needs to be recovered, but most everything else is a thrifty find:

I agree...I have can name more things that are twice loved than I purchased new in my home. I love the table. What a change. It took the hard lines and made them soft with the fabric. I like it Amanda.

Amanda, I remember the desk, and I still love it! But I don't think I had seen the whole area before, and it looks fabulous! I love all your little touches...the spools and clothespins, the quote tray...it all looks great!

Love it!!! I "thrifted" today...kinda...ok, the places I went were not as inexpensive as I'd hoped, but they were soooo cool! Hopefully I will have some makeovers to post in the future...I think I'm going to start taking my girlies thrifting on Thursdays (the first garage sale day of the week) or something...treasure hunting. How fun!

Fabulous my friend!! I love when you find a cheap find and make it over and it turns out better than you had hoped! Those are definately days that you should pat yourself on the back and tell yourself how AWESOME you are!You should do that today!!

Girl, you are so creative! That special little space you made for yourself is precious. I'm trying to motivate myself to make myself a space like that, too. I have a desk upstairs in our bedroom that could really use a redo. I should do it!

Your room is JUST beautiful amanda! It's truly an inspiration! I just redid my craft room in Shabby Chic as well and found a LOT of great finds at our local Salvation Army. :)(Just FYI) I just found some beautiful apothecary jars at Home Goods for $6.99!! amongst some other fabby stuff.

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